11 things you didn't know about Kellie Pickler

9:27 AM,
Nov. 13, 2013

Kellie Pickler sings '(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag' during the taping of 'CMA Country Christmas,' which airs Dec. 2 on ABC. Her new album is called 'The Woman I Am.'(Photo: Brian Mansfield)

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Brian Mansfield, Special for USA TODAY

On the title track of her new album, The Woman I Am, Kellie Pickler sings that she's a stubborn and proud woman who curses too much, can drink like a man and falls to pieces when she hears a sad Patsy Cline song.

Though Pickler, a finalist on American Idol's fifth season and the winner of Dancing With the Stars' 16th, is notoriously unguarded in interviews, there are a few things that she keeps to herself.